Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Twitter interview with the journalist @prempanicker


Apart from the brutality and scale of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai were remarkably late November for a second reason: the role of social media like Twitter, Flickr and Wikipedia play in the coverage of the events. Particularly the Twitter micro blog flowed from the first crackle of gunfire on Nov. 26 packed with the latest news from Mumbai. Often appeared to be faster and more accurate reporting than on TV or newspaper sites. Marks Twitter the maturation of the citizen, or does little more than Twitter "tweet" of low-alloy journalism?And represent the first view, the Mumbai journalist Prem Panicker (50). Panicker, editor of the weekly India Abroad and co-founder of the Indian news portal Rediff.com, one of the prominent Twitter users during the attacks. Panicker took with his tweets for the readers to political analysis, eyewitness and media criticism together to provide "served in 140 characters, for a generation which seems to have a short attention span."Google Translate

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